Finding one’s career path is a journey that often takes years, even decades – but for three-year-old Nancy Owusu, destiny seems to have braided itself neatly into her tiny fingers.
Despite her tender age, Nancy has already dazzled the world with her extraordinary talent for hair braiding—a skill her parents believe is nothing short of a natural gift.
Little Nancy was busy at work, taking her work seriously and using her dexterity to get a plait of hair done when the news team visited her.
Swiftly twisting the strands of hair, the 3-year-old’s adeptness at braiding has left residents in Tabere, a community along the Kumasi-Sunyani road, in awe.
It all began one afternoon after she returned from school.
Her mother, Amina Yakubu, recounts she had eagerly wanted to braid a customer’s hair with them
“A month and a half ago when she’d returned from school, she worried me to allow her to join us braid. I didn’t mind her until she woke up from her sleep and forcefully joined us. I was surprised at how she was braiding,” she said.
After an exciting day at school, Little Nancy spends her leisure time doing what she loves and does best.
“I was delighted my daughter could braid because she could also take up my job,” Amina added.
Little Nancy isn’t only a wonder in her small Tabere community, she’s left social media users agog, reaching over 2 million viewers and 320 thousand followers.
Realizing her uniqueness and potential, Ebenezer Akobilla, a relative – now her social media manager – set up an account on various platforms to expose her unique skill to the world.
“I wish to set her up even when her mother isn’t available so she could continue with this skill. So I always encourage her to keep on with what she is doing,” he said.
In the last few months, Little Nancy has attracted a lot of customers to her mother’s beauty parlour to receive the gentle, soft touch of her tiny hands.
“Some people just come here for her to touch their hair for them. They can even wait for her to return from school,” Amina said.
Nancy naturally comes as an active, bubbly girl who is curious to know her environment.
A resident, Obaa Tina, is dumbfounded after she saw the young girl exceptionally braiding hair for the first time.
“She told me sometime back that she’d want to braid my hair. But I never believed her until I saw her braiding with her mother. I was surprised and she does it with all seriousness,” she said.
Her mother added: “When I gave birth to her, she kept gazing at the room. The nurses were surprised at her”.
With no official attempt for a world record, you perhaps may want to consider her Ghana’s youngest hair braider.
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